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Bursting pipes and broken dreams: on ruination and reappropriation of large-scale water infrastructure in Baringo County, Kenya 破裂的管道和破碎的梦想:关于肯尼亚巴林戈县大规模水利基础设施的破坏和重新利用

IF 1.4 3区社会学

Journal of Eastern African Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/17531055.2023.2231790

David Greven

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Suspending ruination: preserving the ambiguous potentials of a Kenyan flower farm 暂停破坏：保留肯尼亚花卉农场的模糊潜力

IF 1.4 3区社会学

Journal of Eastern African Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/17531055.2023.2231785

Anna Lisa Ramella, Mario Schmidt, Megan A. Styles

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Uganda’s ruling coalition and the 2021 elections: change, continuity and contestation 乌干达执政联盟与2021年选举：变革、连续性和竞争

IF 1.4 3区社会学

Journal of Eastern African Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/17531055.2023.2246761

Moses Khisa

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The frontier on the doorstep: development and conflict dynamics in the southern rangelands of Kenya 门口的边界：肯尼亚南部牧场的发展和冲突动态

IF 1.4 3区社会学

Journal of Eastern African Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/17531055.2023.2227938

K. Mkutu

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From ruins and rubble: promised and suspended futures in Kenya (and beyond) 从废墟和瓦砾中：肯尼亚（及其他地区）承诺和暂停的未来

IF 1.4 3区社会学

Journal of Eastern African Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/17531055.2023.2245263

Uroš Kovač, Anna Lisa Ramella

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Role of history in shaping perceptions of climate change in the alpine areas of Kenya 历史在肯尼亚高山地区形成气候变化观念方面的作用

IF 1.4 3区社会学

Journal of Eastern African Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/17531055.2023.2237266

T. Downing, D. Olago, T. Nyumba

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The rise and fall of a Swahili tabloid in socialist Tanzania: Ngurumo newspaper, 1959–76 一份斯瓦希里语小报在社会主义坦桑尼亚的兴衰:1959 - 1976年的《ngumo报》

IF 1.4 3区社会学

Journal of Eastern African Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/17531055.2023.2246762

G. Roberts

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Transition, transformation, and the politics of the future in Uganda 过渡，转型，以及乌干达未来的政治

IF 1.4 3区社会学

Journal of Eastern African Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/17531055.2023.2236848

Sam Wilkins, Richard Vokes

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In the ruins of past forest lives: remembering, belonging and claiming in Katimok, highland rural Kenya 在过去森林生活的废墟中:记忆，归属和主张在肯尼亚高地农村的卡蒂莫克

IF 1.4 3区社会学

Journal of Eastern African Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/17531055.2023.2231786

Léa Lacan

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Ranger/soldier: patterns of militarizing conservation in Uganda 护林员/士兵：乌干达军事化保护模式

IF 1.4 3区社会学

Journal of Eastern African Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/17531055.2023.2235660

Christopher Day, William D. Moreto, Riley Ravary

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